Gender and the end of empire

Halsall, G.
(2004)
Gender and the end of empire.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 34 (1).
pp. 17-39.
ISSN 1082-9636

Abstract

[FIRST PARAGRAPH]
The problem of the “Fall of the Roman Empire” continues to excite debate
among historians and archaeologists, fifteen centuries after Odoacer deposed
the usurper Romulus in 476. Similarly, there is an ever-growing corpus of
work on women’s history and, to some extent more recently, gender in late
antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The challenge of bringing these two
burgeoning areas of research together has, however, on the whole been
avoided.